Pastor and artist Joseph Novak talks text and symbol. For millennia, biblical literature has shaped imagination and culture. "The Minimum Bible," a project from pastor and artist Joseph Novak ...

When people really hear Scripture, it comes alive in their hearts and their imaginations. They can see Jesus and his disciples trudging the dusty road to Jerusalem, Peter receiving a vision of animals ...

Location: Education in Zion Gallery, Joseph F. Smith Building Dates: November 5, 2014 - April 30, 2016 Times: Click here for gallery hours bodiesfilledwithlight.byu.edu Cultural references to body ...

L. 14 1/8 x 10¾ in. (358 x 274 mm.) S. 19 5/8 x 15 in. (498 381 mm.) ...

Michael Stevens and Nicolas Fredrickson are good friends who meet weekly for Bible study. While they liked studying the contents of the Bible, they were less than impressed with the design and ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

Randy Rosenthal has a master’s in theological studies from Harvard University, where he teaches writing. We usually think of scripture as a written text, part of a closed canon, as sacrosanct, as ...

Karen Armstrong’s book, The Lost Art of Scripture, studies the role and the place of holy texts — at best seen as negligible, at worst a manipulative tool for justifying violence and fundamentalism — ...

* Originally published on January 6, 2020. Karen Armstrong describes herself as a "freelance monotheist," a moniker that suits the bestselling author of books about Christianity, Islam and Judaism.